Simon Callow Quotes
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
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In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.
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I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.
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Think with your whole body.
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We need to increase education budgets.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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A philosopher is someone who says, 'We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!'
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One thing remaining, infallible, would be Enough.
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'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'
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All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.
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Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can’t think of it.
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A cocktail done right can really show your guests that you care.
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The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
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Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.
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Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
